Cycling at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games was the 9th appearance of Cycling at the Commonwealth Games. The events were held in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 24 January to 2 February 1974.

The track events were held at Denton Park Velodrome on Chalmers Street in the west of Christchurch, which underwent reconstruction specifically for the Games. A new covered stand was added and the test event was the National Championships.

The road race was held in the south of Christchurch and was known as the Cashmere circuit, taking in Cashmere, Beckenham and Huntsbury. The distance was 114 miles, consisting of 17 laps of approximately 6.5 miles and included the Hackthorne Road 380 feet hill climb on each lap. 44 riders started at 7am on the last day of the Games.

England topped the cycling medal table, by virtue of winning four gold medals.

Medal table

Medallists Time trial Dick Paris John Nicholson Ian HallamSprint John Nicholson Xavier Mirander Ian AtherlyIndividual pursuit Ian Hallam Willi Moore Gary SuttonTeam pursuit Mick BennettRik EvansIan HallamWilli Moore Murray HallKevin NicholsGarry ReardonGary Sutton Paul BrydonRené HeydeRussell NantBlair Stockwell10 miles scratch Steve Heffernan Murray Hall Ian HallamTandem Geoff CookeErnest Crutchlow John RushDanny O'Neil Paul MedhurstPhilip HarlandRoad race Clyde Sefton Phil Griffiths Remo Sansonetti

Results

Road Race PosAthleteTime1 Clyde Sefton 5:07:16.87 hours2 Phil Griffiths 5:07:45.953 Remo Sansonetti 5:17:26.084 Vern Hanaray 5:17:27.835 Garry Bell 5:18:25.836 Phil Edwards 5:19:18.357 William Nickson 5:19:18.488 Peter Watson 5:19:18.899 Alex Gilchrist 5:19:23.37 10 Max Grace 5:20:17.1611 Dave Kane 5:25:31.9712 Gordon Gale 5:25:37.40

10 miles scratch race PosAthleteTime1 Steve Heffernan 20:51.25 mins2 Murray Hall 20:51.61 3 Ian Hallam 20:51.66 4 Kevin Nichols 20:51.725 Mick Bennett 20:51.736 Paul Brydon 20:51.787 Brian Keast 20:51.798 Michael Kelly 20:52.469 Allan Miller 10 Bernard Shimell

4,000m individual pursuit PosAthlete1 Ian Hallam 2 Willi Moore 3 Gary Sutton 4 Blair Stockwell 5 John Edward Sanders 5 William Nickson5 Mick Bennett 5 Dick Paris

Quarter-final AthleteAthleteScore Moore Nickson 5.10.90/5:21.84 Sutton Bennett 5.10.11/5:19.97 Hallam Sanders 5.04.12/5:17.45 Stockwell Paris 5.21.19/5:30.77 Semi finals AthleteAthleteScore Hallam Sutton 5.09.63/5.17.17 Moore Stockwell 5.06.19/5.09.17 Third place AthleteAthleteScore Sutton Stockwell 5.09.17/5.09.47 Final AthleteAthleteScore Hallam Moore 5.05.46/5.11.81

Time trial (1km) PosAthleteTime1 Dick Paris 1:11.85 mins2 John Nicholson 1:11.923 Ian Hallam 1:12.154 Rene Heyde 1:12.165 Gary Reardon1:12.726 Jacob Schriek 1:12.817 Xavier Mirander 1:13.398 Rik Evans 1:13.689 Steve Heffernan 1:13.7410 John Dean 1:14.2211 Ian Atherly 1:14.53 12 Noel Lucas 1:15.6613 William Nickson 1:15.67 14 John Tudor 1:15.8515 Brian Keast 1:16.5516 John Pritchard 1:16.8617 Alex Gilchrist 1:17.1418 John Clark 1:17.3819 Daud Ibrahim 1:17.5820 Phillip Taylor 1:17.90

1,000m match sprint PosAthlete1 John Nicholson 2 Xavier Mirander 3 Ian Atherly 4 Greg Williams 5 Paul Medhurst 6 Gregory John Barnes 7 Bryce Preston 8 Ernie Crutchlow Quarter-final AthleteAthleteScore Atherly Barnes 2–1 Williams Crutchlow 2–0 Mirander Preston 2–0 Nicholson Medhurst 2–0 Semi finals AthleteAthleteScore Nicholson Atherly 2–0 Mirander Williams 2–0 Third place AthleteAthleteScore Atherly Williams 2–0 Final AthleteAthleteScore Nicholson Mirander 2–0

Tandem (2,000m) PosAthlete1 Geoff Cooke & Ernie Crutchlow2 John Rush & Danny O'Neil3 Paul Medhurst & Philip Harland4 John Hatfield & John Tudor Semi finals AthleteAthlete Australia New Zealand England Wales Third place AthleteAthlete New Zealand Wales Final AthleteAthlete England Australia

Team pursuit PosAthlete1 Bennett, Evans, Hallam, Moore2 Hall, Nichols, Reardon, Sutton3 Brydon, Heyde, Nant, Stockwell4 Clark, Gilchrist, Gordon, Nickson5 Hatfield, Smith, Taylor, Demery Semi finals TeamTeamTime Australia New Zealand 4.53.24 England Scotland 4.31.31 Third place TeamTeamTime New Zealand Scotland4:45.90/4:57.99 Final TeamTeamTime England Australia 4:40.50/4:49.22

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